Natural Table of the Correspondences Existing Between God, Man, and the Universe

distinguished rank among all the traditional Books known to us.

It is not even without significance that the name Hebrew (Ghibri) is the true type of present man; it signifies passer-by or transient, to indicate to man what his stay on Earth is.

One finds, in effect, in these Books evident correspondences with the deepest truths, whether intellectual or sensible.

Universal productions are represented therein as being the fruit of those invisible faculties that precede any act whatsoever. The word Rosch original: "ראש" signifying the Principle, the head, or the dwelling of thought, can signify thought itself: bereshit original: "בראשית", which is the first word of the Hebrew text, can therefore be rendered just as well by these words, In the thought, as by these, In the beginning, which only relate to time. Thus, without rejecting this version: In the beginning God created, etc., one could read intellectually, In the thought God created, etc., and one would find one more truth therein.

Universal productions are represented therein as being the fruit of several agents, through the singular expression Bara Elohim original: "ברא אלהים", the Gods created: a speaking image of the truth of the primary things, in which one sees at once